Bryant Tuff, who has addresses in both Lowell and Dracut, pleaded not guilty to charges of assault with intent to rape and assault and battery earlier this week. He was being held pending a dangerousness hearing on Friday.

Prosecutors said on Feb. 26, after a woman left the Dracut gym, she drove to her house and then sat in her car texting, the Lowell Sun reported.

The woman saw a man approach her car so she locked the doors. When the woman eventually got out of her car, she was attacked by a man wearing a bandanna, the paper reported. The man pulled her pants down and tried to drag her to a secluded area, but she was able to fight nim off and get away.

Prosecutors also presented evidence they say implicates Tuff in three other instances of women being followed, and in some cases assaulted, by a man driving a silver car after leaving Planet Fitness in Dracut.

A man who identified himself as Tuff's brother said he doesn't think his brother is involved in the attacks.

"I believe him and that's all I will say," he said.

Defense attorneys said there is no evidence linking Tuff, a former Dracut High football star, to the attack, and he does not fit the description of the attacker.

According to the Lowell Sun, Tuff was arrested in 2012 on charges of assault and battery, defacing property and disturbing the peace, and in 2013 on charges of breaking and entering in the nighttime for a felony.

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